Shang Feng turned to look at Lin Qiubai, her delicate face, reminiscent of a queen, was filled with suspicion.
Her slender eyebrows slightly furrowed, and her red lips pressed together. The details revealed that she was not as calm as she appeared on the surface.
Lin Qiubai stood indifferently in place, remaining silent.
It was easy to deduce that as a time traveler who had disrupted Fortune, he must have encountered one of the Hundred Thousand Heavenly Calamities.
A deadly calamity.
Whether he could evade it depended entirely on how Lin Qiubai performed.
One wrong step could mean death.
There was no way out!
“Lin Qiubai... you are indeed Lin Qiubai. You are remarkable! But you have betrayed my Evil Cultivator organization by killing seven young geniuses in Northern Liang Province. Following that, you caused the fall of a Nirvana Realm Expert and over fifty Transcendent of Creation! Your actions... are intolerable to the Evil Cultivator!”
Gu Tuo glared at Lin Qiubai through gritted teeth. Eight months ago, news from Northern Liang Province had infuriated him to the point of nearly exploding. So many pillars of strength had been slaughtered by this young man before him!
Completely wiped out!
It even nearly destroyed the network that the organization had painstakingly built over the years, forcing them to retreat deep into the wilderness to escape the pursuit of the Holy Dragon Guard.
As a result, the Evil Cultivator held a deep-seated hatred for Lin Qiubai, wishing nothing more than to devour his flesh and drink his blood!
Naturally, Gu Tuo had to eliminate this threat for the organization.
This person must be eliminated; otherwise, he will become a great threat to Jiangdong!
With that, he raised his finger, and a rich crimson hue gathered between them.
"You cannot escape. No one can save you. Even if a peak warrior from the Nirvana Realm were to arrive here, they would not be able to rescue you before I do."
Gu Tuo firmly locked onto Lin Qiubai's vital energy.
Although his movements were slow, if there was even the slightest disturbance, that finger, which had gathered a lethal strike, would instantly pierce Lin Qiubai's forehead.
Afterward, the violent energy would turn Lin Qiubai's head into a mush.
All life would dissipate!
There was no second possibility!
Lin Qiubai was overwhelmed by the sharp aura emanating from Gu Tuo's fingertip, tears streaming down his face as his heart raced to the point of almost shattering!
He did not want to die!
He wanted to grow stronger!
He wanted to eradicate all Evil Cultivators in the world!
He wanted to burn down all the wild forests of Northern Liangzhou, digging three feet into the ground to eliminate every last Evil Cultivator!
At this moment, he could not die!
Lin Qiubai's eyes turned blood-red as he deeply concealed his frustration and killing intent.
"You can't kill me! Do you think the messages from Northern Liang Province are the real truth?! Do you really think I am an enemy of the Evil Cultivator?! Wake up!!"
Lin Qiubai cried out in despair, flipping his palm to reveal a rusted token that lay in his hand, faintly engraved with the character for "evil."
"Do you see this? With this, I am the Bright Lord leading the rise of the Evil Cultivator!
Look at this as well, this is Holy Gu! Do you think anyone can just obtain Holy Gu?!"
Lin Qiubai growled softly, his facial muscles contorting.
"I! I am the Evil Cultivator's Bright Lord! Yet I have been chased by the Evil Cult Organization for a full twenty-three million miles!"
The trump card Lin Qiubai revealed, along with his pained expression and genuine emotions, left Gu Tuo stunned in place.
Meanwhile, Shang Feng gritted her teeth.
She never expected that the Lin Qiubai she valued so much was actually a thorough Evil Cultivator!
"In these years, several powerful figures in key positions of various organizations have betrayed their groups... Why do you think they betrayed? Have you considered the reasons?"
As Lin Qiubai spoke, his heart raced intensely because all of this was fabricated based on his experiences and careful observations.
Just days ago, that Creation Realm Evil Cultivator was killed by another Evil Cultivator. From this, Lin Qiubai deduced that the Evil Cultivator was certainly not a solid iron barrel.
That was why he dared to take such a risk in speaking like this.
But if there were even the slightest flaw, what awaited Lin Qiubai would be a blood finger capable of piercing through his skull!
Fortunately, Lin Qiubai was exceptionally lucky.
Gu Tuo gazed sadly at the Holy Gu on Lin Qiubai's shoulder, swallowing hard.
"They didn't tell me that you possess the Holy Gu, and you also have the Holy Evil Order... It seems the organization has hidden many things from me... Why would they conceal this from me? Heh..."
The corners of Gu Tuo's eyes twitched, feeling an inexplicable chill. It turned out that the truth of the matter had been concealed for so long.
So... were there even more truths hidden from him?
With this thought, an unprecedented sense of despair enveloped Gu Tuo's heart.
"We should have risen twenty years ago, but there were always problems—endless issues, with batch after batch of Evil Cultivators dying for no reason!"
Gu Tuo gritted his teeth in anguish; the more reclusive a person was, the more sensitive their thoughts became, making them easier to deceive.
And Lin Qiubai had precisely seized upon this weakness of human nature. Step by step, he brainwashed Gu Tuo.
"Wherever there are people, there will be intrigue. There will always be those who covet power.
So these sudden incidents are actually their way of gradually eliminating dissenters.
If you weren't in the imperial capital, do you really think someone like you, who is wholeheartedly devoted to the rise of our Evil Cultivator faction, could continue to live?
Kong Sen dedicated his life to fighting for the Evil Cultivators; do you really think I was the one who betrayed him?"
Lin Qiubai tightened his grip on the Holy Evil Order, unable to suppress a couple of coughs of blood. Every action added to Lin Qiubai's emotional performance.
Gu Tuo's face showed a deep sorrow, and after a long pause, he finally spoke.
"I don't want to think deeply about it. I never considered it in that way."
Because more than two hundred years ago, I grew up in the Evil Cult Organization.
Every day, the ideology I was exposed to was to dedicate myself for the rise of the Evil Cultivator.
Later, this became my life's creed!
However, both of my close friends from the Nirvana Realm sacrificed themselves during the rise of the Evil Cultivator...
Every time, it was an accident!
How could there be so many accidents? They were all Nirvana Realm Experts! Could they just die like that?
Now I finally understand, someone deliberately killed them. Like me, they were unaware of many truths and were pushed towards death!
Gu Tuo smiled bitterly, feeling deep sorrow for himself and his friends.
Lin Qiubai breathed a sigh of relief; his instigation had succeeded.
With a mix of truth and deception, leaving room for Gu Tuo to fill in the gaps with his imagination, it was precisely that imaginative part that was the essence of his manipulation.
Because it left room for imagination, Gu Tuo would follow this line of thought to seek evidence everywhere, ultimately trapping himself and unable to escape.
Sure enough, Gu Tuo fell for it and retracted his blood-stained fingers. His hands drooped down, lost in thought.
"So you were a genius among the Evil Cultivators, yet because you saw through their true intentions, you were falsely accused and hunted down? A genius who could lead the Evil Cultivators to rise is going to die in a struggle for power!?"
Gu Tuo's facial muscles tightened, filled with resentment.
"The decline of the Evil Cultivator was actually because of this! So it was because of this!"
Lin Qiubai looked at Gu Tuo, remaining silent. Gu Tuo was now overwhelmed with negative emotions influenced by Lin Qiubai.
It was hard to believe that he could discern truth from falsehood from millions of miles away...
The truth had been completely distorted by Lin Qiubai!
There was no way to retrieve the truth. Gu Tuo must have developed a rift with the Evil Cult Organization. After all, in the past year, Lin Qiubai had the Holy Gu and the Holy Evil Order as truths, yet there was no mention of the Evil Cult Organization at all.
If it weren't for encountering Lin Qiubai, he would still be kept in the dark.
Like a fool.
After a long while, Gu Tuo finally raised his head.
"Where are you headed now?"
His use of "you" indicated that he had accepted Lin Qiubai's identity.
Lin Qiubai shed tears of gratitude, crying like a child. He put away the Demon Wugui and then choked out, "I am going to Yun Yin Sheng Zong."
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